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...paid the bills. It was on the editorial page of his morning editions that old Joseph Pulitzer's torch was carried most high and brightly until his death in 1911 and thereafter. And it was to the man in charge of that editorial page that other U. S. newspapermen, insofar as they regarded the World as the Law & the Prophets, paid homage as to their Moses, their prophet of Liberalism. This week a great dinner was given by the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan for 41-year-old Walter Lippmann, the past seven years the World's chief editorial...
...dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been smothered by old President Paul von Hindenburg. The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world's most potent criminal, Alphonse ("Scarface...
...game any better. This system has been tried out in college baseball with no very conclusive results, but it is fairly certain that the players themselves do not want the coach to relinquish his control. A coach is necessary to make substitutions in football and direct the team insofar as he is allowed under the present rules. These are functions which can not be carried out efficiently by the captain, whose worries are great enough now to affect his playing ability. Certainly no one wants a coach who moves his men about like pawns on a chess board even...
...actual theatre of Brazil's Civil War-an area as large as the U. S. states east of the Mississippi River-towns and cities were frequently "captured" by both Federals and Rebels simultaneously last week-if their official announcements were to be believed. ' The main fighting line, insofar as it existed, was the southern frontier of the great coffee state of Sao Paulo, "Heart of Brazil," bailiwick of President Washington Luis and his ruling clique. It appeared certain that the southern Rebels had not advanced north of this frontier...
...might be able in after-life to "look any man in the face and tell him to go to Hell", perhaps present a sounder philosophy of life than the noted speaker makes them out to hold in his anecdote. Mr. Bacon's objections to this code are rightly chosen insofar as the man might have meant opposition to the society of which his son is a part. On the other hand, the promise might have implied that in a college education may be found the key to one's independence. A degree is an excellent, if not absolutely necessary, stepping...